TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horton-Stallings,LaMonda
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Mutha' Is Half A Word: Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture 
SN  - 9780814272138
AV  - PS153.N5 H68 2007
U1  - 810.9/353 22
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - African American women
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Lesbianism in literature
KW  - African American women in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-328) and index; The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!": tar baby trope and blue material in black female comedy -- Badd-nasty: tricking the tropes of the Bad man/Nigga and Queen B (?) -- The black and white of Queen B(?)'s play -- Queen B(?)s queering of neo-soul desire -- Representin' for the bitches: Queen B(?) in hip-hop culture -- Trickster's gift: a language of sexual rights through polymorphous erotics and voluptuous black women's sexualities; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27978/
ER  -